Congratulations to Neuroscience Majors Vaaragie Subramaniam and Andrew Turner , who received research fellowships from the Neuroscience Research Priority Area for 2020-2021 !

Vaaragie will be studying the means by which chronic activation of hypoxia pathways in the brain can cause damage, leading to neurodegeneration and cerebrovascular injury iin the laboratory of Dr. Florin Despa (https://pharmns.med.uky.edu/users/fde226), in the Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences at UK.

Andrew will be studying the genetics of Alzheimer's Disease in the laboratory of Dr. Steve Estus (https://physiology.med.uky.edu/users/sestus2), in the Department of Physiology at UK.